Sara Jane Moore

Sara Jane Moore (15 February 1930-), born Sara Jane Kahn, was a West Virginia accountant who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford on 22 September 1975 due to her radical political views.

Biography
Sara Jane Kahn was born in Charleston, West Virginia on 15 February 1930, and she attended nursing school before becoming an accountant. In 1975, she turned to revolutionary politics after five divorces, and she became a bookkeeper for Randolph Hearst's People in Need charity foundation, which paid for food to feed the hungry of America. Moore was said to have had an obsession with Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army by her friends.

Assassination attempt on Ford
On 22 September 1975, Moore decided to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco just 17 days after Lynette Fromme had attempted the same act in Sacramento, California. She fired a .38 caliber revolver at him, narrowly missing him. Before she could fire another shot, a gay former US Marine Corps soldier named Oliver Sipple knocked her arm and made her miss her aim; Harvey Milk and the gay rights movement would name Sipple as a hero. Moore fired one last shot, wounding a taxi driver, before she was arrested. She pled guilty to the assassination, expressing regret that she had thrown her life away, but stating that her actions expressed her anger at the government. In 2007, she was released from prison on parole, and she claimed that she regretted her attempt on Ford's lives, saying that she had been blinded by her radical political views.